Flooded woodshed

You wait a decade for a new Oval track, & suddenly a near-century of them floods out...

What with Oh & O & now this freebie Ringtone EP Thrill Jockey bestowed on the world yesterday - after all, when you've got a legendary artist on your hands who's knocking out 70-track double albums in his self-reinventive fecundity, why settle for single giveaways? Go a much wholer hog with a pinging/twanging octet of the things, plus a mysterious extra extra (School Trails) that is indisputably of a piece with the rest of the often glittering new Popp - this talk of a second debut, the fruit of years of 'woodshedding' ("O, named for a new beginning, (ground zero if you will)"), begins to really resonate...

Previous coverage.

Oval > Legendary / Alpaca / Salajingle / (from Ringtones EP, Thrill Jockey)

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Never personal

Always engaged, always engaging - Klimek, the third member of Anticipate's great triumvirate (alongside newly-collaborating label head Ezekiel Honig & delicate glitchist Mark Templeton - also see today's post from our sister site, Ears Alive), brews dubby, noirish atmospherics & a rich whorl of found voices into a potent, intriguing new demo.

Background: "based on interviews & conversations with "arrested" russian seamen, norwegian coast police and representatives of the ore-mining industry - as recorded in Kirkenes, NO - January 2006.

out take from the installation / site specific work/research entitled "BUSINESS NEVER PERSONAL" commissioned by Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes and with the support of Goethe Institute Oslo."

Pics

Previous coverage (also here).

"all the chinese want to have a nice life just like us" DEMO by klimek

Photo by Luca Rossato.

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Blood & beer

After their often mesmerising Night Haunts Sukhdev Sandhu & Scanner recombine on the chewily poetic Sighs, Wonders for the Abrahamic The Calling (part of this year's Spitalfields Festival) - a long extract below, with a moving coda ("you don't know what I do...") by Paul Turp, Rector at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.

A rewarding pair of NH instrumentals - the throbbing, rattling Graffiti & ruminative, ebbing Rivers - below too...

"The invasion of the Visigoths. The onward march of the Griffin. The role of corporate capital in mangling the languages of ethics and intimacy that the church tries to speak. This experimental sound piece is a drift through the yearning spaces of the East End: its dreams and disappointments, its fierce refusals and affirmation. It is as if eavesdropping into a misty day and falling into a plaintive dream, where Sandhu's libretto resonates against the brittle dark textures and ambience of East London composed by Scanner."

Also from The Calling, video of Swirling Passages of Time - 'A Sufi Journey' by Sonia Mehta & Nasha Crew/Experience:

Sukhdev Sandhu & Scanner > Signs, Wonders [excerpt] (from The Calling, unreleased) > Graffiti / Rivers (from Night Haunts, unreleased)

Photos by Robin Rimbaud / Toby Glanville (Sandhu).

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Lupine flourish

A year on from her dreadfully premature death, listening again to Dani Baquet-Long's Chubby Wolf - not for anniversary reasons but because there is still so much to hear in Celer & her solo spin-off (as well, of course, as so much of it to hear...).

Try her notably effortless, seemingly limitless Ornitheology cassette on Digitalis (extracts below). Ironically, the physical tape is extremely limited (125 copies...).

She also released the solo albums L'histoire (Gears of Sand) & Meandering Pupa (digital self-release): Discogs.

Classic Digitalis write-up: "...the time finally felt right to let this sprawling mass of phosphorescent beauty spread its delicate wings. listening to long's solo works it becomes obvious how potent her contributions to celer really were. this is subtle, devastating music. crisp drones that flourish like moonflowers at midnight, sending off sensous queues to your synapses and taking you places far into the sky. we are all lucky that there is still an exquisite mountain of chubby wolf offerings waiting for their day in the sun. "ornitheology" is only the beginning."



Celer past coverage (also here).

Chubby Wolf > on burnt, gauzed wings [extract] / phantasmagoria of nothingness (prey to our emotions) [extract] (both from Ornitheology, Digitalis)



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Factory vent

Small Things on Sundays return with another frisky, frothy set of salsa/cumbia workouts...

Or not. More's dark somnolence & wintry sweeps may not soundtrack your sun-singed BBQ. But transporting tracks like the appropriately vast Cavernous (the album's highlight, to these ears), the industrial throb & collapse of Powerstation (stream both below) & the thrumming, dank closer From a Distance resume the rich challenge of the earlier 4am (full stream).

Blurb: "Small Things on Sundays continue to explore sounds between dark ambient and drone. This time the duo digs deeper into the darkness with more industrial and powerful sounds.

”More” is a journey into apparently desolate sites or constructions devoid of human activity. The music is a sonic interpretation of these places. It could be the vibrations of machines in empty buildings or the distant waves crashing in on the shoreline. It could be the wind audible in an old factory vent or the hissing sound underneath the car-tires on a rainy motorway, its still hard to tell which is the original source.

If you should draw a parallel to film-making, Tarkovsky would be obvious as an inspiration. The desolate passages and slow panning by the camera in long sequences with no obvious story seems comparable to what we try to achieve.

On 'More' ........ distorted, re-sampled and mutated, again and again, until a new expression is obtained."

Previous coverage. SoundCloud. Transformation / Decay - 3-track freebie (including the beautifully paced, somewhat Aidan Baker-ish Sara Said, re-upped below) via Menthe de Chat...

cavernous by small things on sundays

powerstation by small things on sundays

Small Things on Sundays > Sara Said (re-up; from Transformation / Decay, Menthe de Chat)

SToS's Henrik Bagner also operates as On The Wrong Planet. First Visit - again on Striate Cortex - seems like an austerer pleasure, though the stand-out You Can't Make Me Forget chucks an engaging riffiness & even the hint of a string passage into its eddying vortex.

you cant make me forget by on the wrong planet

Bonus:

Penumbra (Nearly There) by Damian Valles

Previous coverage (& here).

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